Melissa
@melissamcnyc.bsky.social
NYC foodie & lover of the arts, politics & animals. Political activist & supporter of civil & human rights. Aim to be inspired & live w compassion. #RESIST 🌊 🌻🇺🇦
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The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
November 10, 2025 at 1:49 AM
The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
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Collins: When the president says there's virtually no inflation and that grocery prices are going down, do you agree with him on that?
Greene: No. I go to the grocery store myself. Grocery prices remain high. Energy prices are high.
Greene: No. I go to the grocery store myself. Grocery prices remain high. Energy prices are high.
November 7, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Collins: When the president says there's virtually no inflation and that grocery prices are going down, do you agree with him on that?
Greene: No. I go to the grocery store myself. Grocery prices remain high. Energy prices are high.
Greene: No. I go to the grocery store myself. Grocery prices remain high. Energy prices are high.
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🚨BREAKING: Democrat Marisa Sweeney has won her race for State Assembly in the 25th district in New Jersey, flipping the Morris County-based seat for the first time since 1977.
Democrat Marisa Sweeney wins Assembly seat in 25th district - New Jersey Globe
Democrat Marisa Sweeney has won her race for State Assembly in the 25th district, flipping the Morris County-based seat for the first time since 1977.
newjerseyglobe.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:57 AM
🚨BREAKING: Democrat Marisa Sweeney has won her race for State Assembly in the 25th district in New Jersey, flipping the Morris County-based seat for the first time since 1977.
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Pennsylvania voters retain three state Supreme Court justices, preserving Democrats' 5-2 majority
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Pennsylvania voters retain three state Supreme Court justices, preserving Democrats' 5-2 majority
NBC News projects the incumbents survived an up-or-down vote to keep their seats on the battleground state’s high court.
www.nbcnews.com
November 5, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Pennsylvania voters retain three state Supreme Court justices, preserving Democrats' 5-2 majority
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AOC: I don't care if someone likes me or not. That will never change the fact that I'm going to fight for them to have health care. I want MAGA to have health care. I want MAGA to be paid a living wage.
October 16, 2025 at 2:27 AM
AOC: I don't care if someone likes me or not. That will never change the fact that I'm going to fight for them to have health care. I want MAGA to have health care. I want MAGA to be paid a living wage.
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NEW: A federal judge in Miami has ruled that operations at the controversial detention facility Alligator Alcatraz must begin to wind down, ordering state and federal officials to stop transferring detainees there and relocate current detainees within 60 days.
Judge: Tear down Alligator Alcatraz within 60 days
"This decision sends a clear message that environmental laws must be respected by leaders at the highest levels of our government."
www.motherjones.com
August 22, 2025 at 3:56 PM
NEW: A federal judge in Miami has ruled that operations at the controversial detention facility Alligator Alcatraz must begin to wind down, ordering state and federal officials to stop transferring detainees there and relocate current detainees within 60 days.
@morningjoe-msnbc.bsky.social @kattybkay.bsky.social MIKE LAWLER IS NOT A MODERATE- HE VOTES MAGA 99% OF THE TIME - HE VOTED FOR THE BBB DESPITE HOSPITALS IN HIS DISTRICT TOLD HIM THAT THE BILL WOULD BE DEVASTATING!!! STOP CALLING HIM A MODERATE!!! HE WAS AT THE MSG MAGA RALLY!! GET IT RIGHT!!!!
August 22, 2025 at 4:26 PM
@morningjoe-msnbc.bsky.social @kattybkay.bsky.social MIKE LAWLER IS NOT A MODERATE- HE VOTES MAGA 99% OF THE TIME - HE VOTED FOR THE BBB DESPITE HOSPITALS IN HIS DISTRICT TOLD HIM THAT THE BILL WOULD BE DEVASTATING!!! STOP CALLING HIM A MODERATE!!! HE WAS AT THE MSG MAGA RALLY!! GET IT RIGHT!!!!
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"Here legally, engaged in a sanctioned process to determine their eligibility for asylum, they have committed no crime. They are arrested anyway, and the lives they’ve risked to come to the United States are thrown into chaos."
A photographer’s view of ICE’s relentless courthouse arrests
The shattering of faith in America's goodness is the hardest part to watch.
www.motherjones.com
August 21, 2025 at 8:51 PM
"Here legally, engaged in a sanctioned process to determine their eligibility for asylum, they have committed no crime. They are arrested anyway, and the lives they’ve risked to come to the United States are thrown into chaos."
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America: Universal healthcare creates wait times for healthcare.
Also America: waits six months for a neurosurgeon consult and a year to get into a dermatologist…
Also America: waits six months for a neurosurgeon consult and a year to get into a dermatologist…
August 21, 2025 at 2:24 PM
America: Universal healthcare creates wait times for healthcare.
Also America: waits six months for a neurosurgeon consult and a year to get into a dermatologist…
Also America: waits six months for a neurosurgeon consult and a year to get into a dermatologist…
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BREAKING:
The California Assembly has passed the first of three bills to redraw congressional maps
The California Assembly has passed the first of three bills to redraw congressional maps
August 21, 2025 at 7:39 PM
BREAKING:
The California Assembly has passed the first of three bills to redraw congressional maps
The California Assembly has passed the first of three bills to redraw congressional maps
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Illinois tells Bondi that its sanctuary status stands firm.
Illinois to Bondi: Sanctuary status stands firm
www.politico.com
August 21, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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”No matter how dark it gets,” Jon Batiste told the crowd last night. “I know: We can win. We can win. We can win.””
Yes, we can. Let’s not lose sight of the good & motivated people in our country who remain committed to creativity, diversity, inclusion—& joy.
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Yes, we can. Let’s not lose sight of the good & motivated people in our country who remain committed to creativity, diversity, inclusion—& joy.
www.americaamerica.news/p/america-wh...
America, Wherefore Art Thou?
We found one answer when the buoyant Jon Batiste lit up Central Park last night
www.americaamerica.news
August 21, 2025 at 3:38 AM
”No matter how dark it gets,” Jon Batiste told the crowd last night. “I know: We can win. We can win. We can win.””
Yes, we can. Let’s not lose sight of the good & motivated people in our country who remain committed to creativity, diversity, inclusion—& joy.
www.americaamerica.news/p/america-wh...
Yes, we can. Let’s not lose sight of the good & motivated people in our country who remain committed to creativity, diversity, inclusion—& joy.
www.americaamerica.news/p/america-wh...
@kenmartin.bsky.social @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social @schumer.senate.gov @electdemocrats.bsky.social @democrats.org what are you doing to address the decline in Democratic registrations? You can’t win if you don’t have voters
August 21, 2025 at 10:28 PM
@kenmartin.bsky.social @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social @schumer.senate.gov @electdemocrats.bsky.social @democrats.org what are you doing to address the decline in Democratic registrations? You can’t win if you don’t have voters
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Sandwich thrown at FBI agent in Washington DC
"The DC man—good and drunk and ready for vigilante justice—sacrifices his evening meal of a footlong sub sandwich for the moral arc of the universe."
"The DC man—good and drunk and ready for vigilante justice—sacrifices his evening meal of a footlong sub sandwich for the moral arc of the universe."
August 12, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Sandwich thrown at FBI agent in Washington DC
"The DC man—good and drunk and ready for vigilante justice—sacrifices his evening meal of a footlong sub sandwich for the moral arc of the universe."
"The DC man—good and drunk and ready for vigilante justice—sacrifices his evening meal of a footlong sub sandwich for the moral arc of the universe."
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See you out there, or not, but hopefully. mobilize.us
June 14, 2025 at 3:21 PM
See you out there, or not, but hopefully. mobilize.us
@velshi.com thank you for covering the #nokings March with @leahgreenberg.bsky.social
It was beautiful and important - we will not back down and they will not scares us in fighting for ours and others rights
It was beautiful and important - we will not back down and they will not scares us in fighting for ours and others rights
June 15, 2025 at 2:18 PM
@velshi.com thank you for covering the #nokings March with @leahgreenberg.bsky.social
It was beautiful and important - we will not back down and they will not scares us in fighting for ours and others rights
It was beautiful and important - we will not back down and they will not scares us in fighting for ours and others rights
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The U.S. Army celebrated its 250th anniversary on Saturday with a massive military parade in Washington, D.C., against a backdrop of political division and protests savaging President Trump.
3 takeaways from the military parade and No Kings protests on Trump's birthday
The U.S. Army celebrated its 250th anniversary on Saturday with a massive military parade in Washington, D.C., against a backdrop of political division and protests savaging President Trump.
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June 15, 2025 at 2:08 PM
The U.S. Army celebrated its 250th anniversary on Saturday with a massive military parade in Washington, D.C., against a backdrop of political division and protests savaging President Trump.
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June 15, 2025 at 5:55 AM
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Sen. Amy Klobuchar dined with Melissa Hortman, a Minnesota lawmaker and decades-long friend, just hours before she and her husband were shot and killed in what authorities are saying was a politically motivated killing.
“I wish everyone had known her like we knew her,” Klobuchar told POLITICO.
“I wish everyone had known her like we knew her,” Klobuchar told POLITICO.
Klobuchar dined with Minnesota lawmaker just hours before she was killed
The Minnesota senator remembers Hortman, a friend of decades, as a "skilled legislator," she told POLITICO.
www.politico.com
June 14, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Sen. Amy Klobuchar dined with Melissa Hortman, a Minnesota lawmaker and decades-long friend, just hours before she and her husband were shot and killed in what authorities are saying was a politically motivated killing.
“I wish everyone had known her like we knew her,” Klobuchar told POLITICO.
“I wish everyone had known her like we knew her,” Klobuchar told POLITICO.
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Oh I am not shitposting, folks.
Stephen Miller, his wife, and Elon are widely rumored to be a throuple.
Now Miller's wife is leaving the Trump team to be with Musk & LITERALLY PER THE NEW YORK TIMES Stephen is angrily subtweeting Musk.
They actually put it in the paper of record that he was mad
Stephen Miller, his wife, and Elon are widely rumored to be a throuple.
Now Miller's wife is leaving the Trump team to be with Musk & LITERALLY PER THE NEW YORK TIMES Stephen is angrily subtweeting Musk.
They actually put it in the paper of record that he was mad
Meanwhile Stephen Miller is furiously subtweeting Musk on X
May 29, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Oh I am not shitposting, folks.
Stephen Miller, his wife, and Elon are widely rumored to be a throuple.
Now Miller's wife is leaving the Trump team to be with Musk & LITERALLY PER THE NEW YORK TIMES Stephen is angrily subtweeting Musk.
They actually put it in the paper of record that he was mad
Stephen Miller, his wife, and Elon are widely rumored to be a throuple.
Now Miller's wife is leaving the Trump team to be with Musk & LITERALLY PER THE NEW YORK TIMES Stephen is angrily subtweeting Musk.
They actually put it in the paper of record that he was mad
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there is a decent chance i never spend a single dime at target again in my life www.startribune.com/target-gave-...
Target gave $1M to Trump inauguration fund, a first for the company
President Donald Trump raised a record amount of cash for his inauguration, including donations from several companies with operations in Minnesota.
www.startribune.com
April 29, 2025 at 10:13 PM
there is a decent chance i never spend a single dime at target again in my life www.startribune.com/target-gave-...
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Do you hear the people sing for democracy? We are the resistance, 5000 strong! Unbelievable turnout today--keep coming every week!
#HandsOff our country!
@indivisible.org @leahgreenberg.bsky.social @ezralevin.bsky.social
#HandsOff our country!
@indivisible.org @leahgreenberg.bsky.social @ezralevin.bsky.social
April 6, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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